Teacher's Pet [Irish Times]
- Published: 10 November 2009
An insider's guide to education
** The Minister for Education, Batt O’Keeffe, is in a race against time as he seeks to push through major reform of the Junior Certificate while still in office.
Next month, his advisory group on exam issues – the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA) – will deliver an options paper on a new Junior Cert. Ideally, O’Keeffe would like to roll out the exam from September 2010 but this is a tall order, given the snail’s pace of reform in education.
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